Is there an option for filtering stop words out of the query string, so that queries that contain stop words don''t return zero results? It has been several years, but I think that when I was on a project that was writing a search engine, we used to filter stop words both out of the index and out of the query string, after it was parsed. This allows a query like [cold and sinus] to return hits even when the default operator is AND. If there is no option for this in ferret, is there some way of getting at ferret''s parsed query structure, and deleting stop words before it tries to use it? I would like to avoid parsing the query myself, because that duplicates what ferret does. (At the very least, I would like to avoid writing a ferret query language parser!) Thanks, --Paul -- Paul Lynch Aquilent, Inc. National Library of Medicine (Contractor)